our view
Aloha! The four of us took our summer vacation to Maui last week. We stayed in Kā’anapali1, about 15 minutes north of Lāhainā on the west coast of the island. It had been about twenty-five years since I last visited Hawai’i, on ...
hospice window
People who know their way around the hospice experience will tell you about “the rally,” or the bounce-back. Terminal lucidity is the more formal name. For reasons science can’t speak to definitively (though there are theories), patie...
I didn’t even make it one week into my new weekly regimen of Friday recaps without missing one!
This is an opinion decidedly in the minority, but I don’t like fall. I’m a summer person all the way, and fall is the lengthy, painful t...
I was at my dad’s condo a couple of weeks ago, going through his files for some important papers, when I came across this gem: a promissory note for a PLUS loan my mother and I cosigned in February of 1989. That would have been the start of wi...
